US Patent Issued to Atieva on March 24 for "Stowing vehicle seat with break link mechanism" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,369, issued on March 24, was assigned to Atieva Inc. (Newark, Calif.).

"Stowing vehicle seat with break link mechanism" was invented by Kailas Bade (Newark, Calif.), Gurminder Rai (Newark, Calif.), Jeff Carroll (Newark, Calif.) and David Williams (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle seat comprises: a cushion frame; a backrest frame; at least one main link extending between a first pivot at the cushion frame and a first fixed pivot to be mounted to a vehicle body of a vehicle, wherein the at least one main link is configured to support substantially an entire load on the vehicle seat; and a break link extending be...